The Waste Factory at the East Tennessee Technology Park - 17424
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OSTI ID:22802426
- URS - CH2M Oak Ridge LLC, East Tennessee Technology Park P.O. Box 4699, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 (United States)
To successfully support the U.S. DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management (OREM) in its cleanup at the East Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), URS - CH2M Oak Ridge LLC (UCOR) recognized the need for the timely disposition of large amounts of waste. To achieve cleanup goals, UCOR implemented the 'Waste Factory' concept. The Waste Factory requires a centralized waste management program, waste management-deployed staff, and numerous outlets for the various waste streams that move the waste from generation to disposition in a timely, compliant manner. Because no waste can be double handled or stored, characterization has to be sound, the disposition path selected based on the characterization, packaging determined, the Waste Acceptance Criteria (WAC) evaluated for the selected repository, and the waste shipped immediately upon generation. Since inception of the UCOR contract, a total of 509,703.24 m{sup 3} (18 million ft{sup 3}) have been dispositioned, totaling more than 60,000 waste loads and 6.5 million safe kilometers (4 million safe miles) driven. The generated waste has been dispositioned onsite and offsite based on the waste characterization and the UCOR waste management hierarchy. Without the timely disposition of the large amounts of waste generated from a massive cleanup project like ETTP, the project could not have achieved the aggressive schedule and performance that has been accomplished to date. The Waste Factory concept can serve as a model for waste management operations across the DOE complex and in other industries where significant quantities of waste must be disposed of. Without the availability of secure, onsite disposal, UCOR would have been forced to send hundreds of millions of pounds of waste by truck to repositories around the country, increasing risks and costs and slowing the overall progress of cleanup. (authors)
- Research Organization:
- WM Symposia, Inc., PO Box 27646, 85285-7646 Tempe, AZ (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 22802426
- Report Number(s):
- INIS-US--19-WM-17424
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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